diff --git a/include/my_sys.h b/include/my_sys.h
index 9121f0f249e..3c8df28b151 100644
--- a/include/my_sys.h
+++ b/include/my_sys.h
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ extern int NEAR my_errno;		/* Last error in mysys */
 #define MY_WME		16	/* Write message on error */
 #define MY_WAIT_IF_FULL 32	/* Wait and try again if disk full error */
 #define MY_IGNORE_BADFD 32      /* my_sync: ignore 'bad descriptor' errors */
-#define MY_SYNC_DIR     1024    /* my_create/delete/rename: sync directory */
+#define MY_SYNC_DIR     8192    /* my_create/delete/rename: sync directory */
 #define MY_RAID         64      /* Support for RAID */
 #define MY_FULL_IO     512      /* For my_read - loop intil I/O is complete */
 #define MY_DONT_CHECK_FILESIZE 128 /* Option to init_io_cache() */